The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-12-09

paid out on account of pensions. II Is e5-
timated at the Treasury Department tbes
there has been an increase cf nearly Z
million dollars in the public debt during
November.
THE Illinois State Board of Agriculture
has fixed the dates for holding farmers
Institutes in tho various congressional dis
tricts of the State.
A GERMAN crank, supposed TO be John
Schwartz, was arrested at Lima O., on the
1st. He raves continually of the Anarch-
lists, and says that he will ''make it hOt''
for Governor Ogles by, and 'tall men who
have blood on their hands will have
trouble"
NOTWITHSTANDING the order to the press
of Russia not to attack Germany, the
newspapers continue to print hostile criti-
cisms on the disclosures made regarding
the interview between the Gear and Bis
marck.
IN spite Of stringent police surveillance
United Ireland and other Irish papers
which print reports of meetings OF sup
pressed branches of the League are freely
circulated.
THE following is au epitome of the pub
lie debt statement issued on the 1st: Total
debt, principal and interest, 81, Ga, ,S16, $50;
debt, less cash in the treasury, 81 ,295, ,441,-
1853: increase of debt during November,
s., 400, $50; decrease since June 80, 1887,
S39, ,245 6S4; total cash in the treasury,
S504, 800, 165.
THE Comptroller of the Currency, in his
annual report, shows that the total num-
Der of National banks organized up to the
31st of October was 3,S95, Of which 624
have gone into voluntary liquidation, 113
have failed, leaving in operation at that
date 3,061. OF this number 3,040 furnished
reports of condition at the date of the last
call, October 8.
On the 1st the great Orange diamond
found at the Cape of Good Hope, and
which is ten caTats heavier than the Kohl
moor, now in poss ession of Queen Victoria,
was offered for sale at auction in London,
but was withdrawn because there were no
bidders.
CONGRESS at the last session doubled
the Government appropriation for the
militia of the several States, making the
amount for the year 100000. The result
| has been so satisfactory that the larger
| amount viii be continued in the next ap-
preparation bill, if, indsed, there is not a
/ further increase.
| TIE Calumet and Hecia mine fires in the
! Upper Michigan peninsula are not yet ex-
| tinguished, and there is talk of flooding
the mines.
| SURGEONS connected with the railroads
/ centering in st. Joseph, Mo-, have or
4 ganized a society for thorough examina-
/ tion Of accidents peculiar to railrc ads.
Two THOUSAND Belgian miners are said
to be coming over to take the place of the
strikers in the Lehigh Valley coal mines,
and bloodshed is predicted.
! BRADsTREET's estimates the cotton crop
of the country for the current year at
6,4S), 900 bales.
THE Missouri Pacific railroad made con-
nection at sunset, on the evening of the
ID, with the Denver & Rio Grande in Pu.
eblo, Col. Traffic Is now open.
MEMBERS of the Austrian Reichsrath
who are school-teachers, have been or
dered to give up their school duties for the
| whole period for which they have been
el lected to the Reichsrath, on the ground
| that education and politics should be kept
/ separate.
A swINDLER calling himself A. A. At
| we'll. of Hoboken, n. Y, has been flooding
| the West with circulars Offering to furnish
| counterfeit money. The Hoboken police
decided to hunt the man out, and detect
ives were put upon the case. For several
days they shadowed the post-ofIice to ar
rest the man who might call for Atwell IS
letters. On th6 morning of the 2d they
caught him "dead to rights"
THE mail matter sent out daily from
the Secretary of the Interior Depart
ment's Office, amounts to about 3,055
pounds. OF this fifty pounds is tho letter
mail. 1890 pounds is matter from the
document division, and about the same
amount from the stationery and printing
division.
THE st. Paul PiOneer-PreSs learns from
Rathsay, Mimi, of the existence OF two
cases of leprosy of the most Ioathsomt
type, being known so medical men as ele
| phantiasis mutelans. They are Norwe-
gians and heads of families, one living il
Otterfall County and the other in WilkiI
| County.
On the night of the ID Samuel Wright
was fatally and George Ritter seriously
injured by an explosion of natural gai
at Farmland, Ind. The two men en-.
tered a room which Ritter fitting NJ
for q restaurant. A match was struck t.
light the lamps and an explosion Instantly
resulted, compl etely wrecking the build
ing. The explosion resulted from leakag'
of natural gas.